Hi,
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:55:52AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 07:34:17PM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote:
>
> > > It would be useful for Debian users if man pages for software in the
> > > Debian archives were available through the website.
>
> > Here they are for unstable.
>
> > http://people.debian.org/~pmachard/l10n/material/man/
>
> That's cool, but it's nowhere near complete. I was thinking of something
> which covers every package in Debian, so I could read (say) man dhclient
> without having it installed.
Indeed. My page is intended to find material for translators.
>
> Also, somewhere linked to from the main Debian site (in the
> Documentation section would make sense) would be useful.
It's not a simple think. The main reason for that, is that source
packages includes the source of manpages. So you need to work on
binary-package. However, as you probably know, some packages conflicts,
other divert, that is to say, 2 packages provide the same feature, and
provide manpages.
Example for lpr manpages exists in cpusys-bsd and lpr
> Not trying to diss what you've done, just trying to suggest something
> which would be very helpful to Debian users.
Unfortunately, I belive that this bug cannt be fixed trivialy. I think I
will a a tag wontfix for now. Until someone provide a manner to
implement it.
Cheers,
--
Pierre Machard
<pmachard@debian.org> http://debian.org
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